If you're planning a birthday why not conjure up the magical world of Harry Potter by throwing a Finger Tips Wizardy Party? The centrepiece is the Magic Cauldron game, which you can make if you read on. But first, some other ideas... For decoration, how about a broomstick stand? Your guests can park their broomsticks here as they arrive. It's just a bucket of sand covered with a piece of card decorated in silver and gold moons and stars. Paper chains based on wizardry ideas are another good idea. From spooky cobwebs... ...to grinning cats... ...to crescent moons and magic hats! Or snowy, mystic owls? All of these are just cut from thin card and stuck onto lengths of string. Look the part with a pointy wizard hat made from a semicircle of card curled into a cone. Remember to check that it will fit your head before sticking it into place. ...and a cape made from a bin liner decorated with moons and stars. For food ideas, how about enchanting your friends with these bat bites? Or magical mice? Both of these are just sandwiches cut to shape with special cutters that you can buy in the shops. Why not try to make flying sausages with toast wings? And check out these baked apple toads! They're baked apples with faces cut into them, raisins for eyes and biscuits for feet. Delicious! No Wizardy Party would be complete without a magical spellbook cake, complete with wand and mouse. Looks good and tastes great! Finger Tips would like to thank Renshaw Scott for supplying the sugar paste used in decorating the cakes. The Magic Cauldron is a lucky dip game. If players are lucky, they'll pull out a wizards hat filled with chocolate stars! Delicious. If they're not so lucky they might end up with a plastic snake or another wizards hat filled with jelly snakes! If you want to make the Magic Cauldron, the first thing you need to do is lay out a bin liner. You're going to be using a lot of PVA glue which will go everywhere, so it's a good idea because it'll protect your work surface and prevent the finished cauldron from sticking! Next, take another bin liner and fill it with lots of scrunched up newspaper, or even clothes. Anything that will make your bin liner bulge is fine. Gather up the top and secure it with an elastic band. Tie it around the top, but quite low down so that the bin liner looks really full. Now get hold of three sheets of tabloid newspaper and roll them up longways into a sausage shape. Add a bit of sticky tape to secure both ends and the middle in place. Do this with another three sheets of newspaper, and join them together. Wrap this around the top of the filled bin liner, and stick it in place with plenty of sticky tape. Now you'll need a bowl filled with PVA glue and water and some pieces of crepe paper. Dunk in the pieces of crepe paper... ...and stick them onto the bin liner. Cover the whole bin liner in three layers. Once dry, turn the bin liner upside and cover the bottom part in the same way. The handle is made from three more pieces of tabloid newspaper scrunched up into a sausage shape. Add a ball of newspaper to both ends, secured in place with plenty more sticky tape. Bend the handle into shape and cover with crepe paper maché, then leave to dry. When the paper maché around the filled bin liner is dry, take out the contents and remove the bin liner itself. Carefully make two holes in both sides. Wrap some string around the ball of the handle... ...and thread the string through the two holes, and tie up. That's the handle attached to the cauldron. For decoration, add some stars and moons cut from white or silver paper. Fill the cauldron with scrunched up tissue paper and ribbon. And why not throw in some plastic snakes to give some of the players a shock! The small hats are made from cones of card with a brim stuck on. The base has slits cut into it so that you can fill with whichever sweet goodies you fancy. If you like, you could make a tripod for your cauldron from three pieces of garden cane. Just tie some string around the handle, and secure it to the top of the canes.